Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-09-25
DAILY HERALD.
The cashelic unixer..sy.


inpton. and will be in the shape of an
r, with the front of 265 feet forming
the upright stroke of the letter. The
centre OF the front will consist OF a
building five stories high, approached
by brown sandstone arched portico.
The entire buildings will be of brick,
with brown sandstone trimmings, but
Mr.. Baldwin urges that bluestone be
used, and the plans may yet be
changed to include this material. The
wings to the centre building will be
four stories high, with frontage OF
I65 feet and depth of As feet. The
three wings, extending back. will be
l6O feet deep from the front OF the
house, thus including two courts for the
admission of light. The roofs will
have high pitch and be slated. Ihe
central entrance will open into hall
fifteen feet wide and leading to a
grand staircase in stair hall twenty
nine feet wide. A large reception
parlor will be on one side OF this hall,
and three rooms for similar purposes
on The other side. From this hall a
grand corridor will run through the
entire building. both to the right and
left. On this floor, in the wings, the
various public rooms open. They
consist of lecture-room, with ca
pacity for 300 seats, three class-rooms,
.25 by 20 feet each, refectory and
kitchens. In the rear leg Of the cen.
ter wing is the chapel, raised half
story above the ordinary level of the
first floor. This will give room for a
large recreation room and library be-
meath the chapel. The chapel itself
will have nave 26 feet by 80, with a
semi-circular apse or sanctuary In the
end 18 by 26 feet in size. There will
be eight side chapels 8 by 10 feet. A
gallery will be in the nave end.
The three upper floors Of the build
ing will be devoted to the living rooms
for twelve professors and sixty-four
students. who will each have bed
chamber and sitting-rooms. The
building will be somewhat plain, but
will be relieved in the brick work by
terra Gotta panels and cornices. The
stairway and hall will be finished in
hard wood. A fire-proof stairway will
be added to the end of the wings, and
a broad piazza will run around the en-
tire inner portion of the rear wings,
which will look out over the garden
which will be made there.
LETTER FROM THE POPE.
The following is the brief addressed
to Cardinal Gibbons from Pope Leo
XIII, confirming the plans of the uni
yersity:
"It has been the glory of the pastors
of the church, and especially Of the
supreme pontiffs, earnestly to promote
true knowledge, and studiously to pro-
vide that in her schools the sciences
and especially those of theology anc
philosophy, should be taught in con
formity with divine faith, so that the
forces of revelation and reason com
.bined should form an invincible bull
wark of faith. Hence our predecessors
always ardently solicitous for the edu
cation of Christian people in the past
spared no pains nor labor to founC
in the principal cities of Europe thos,
celebrated institutions of learning
that is to say, those universities which
in the middle ages and in the centuries
following, enriched church and Stat'
with multitudes of men of oflearning.
"The importance OF university Ii
made manifest by the dangers t(
which youth is exposed in European
countries in our days; and your own
acquaintance with the condition O.
things in North America cannot but
have convinced you likewise of its
very grave moment. For the unlim
tied license of thought and of writing
to which erroneous notions concerning
both divine and human things have
given rise not only in Europe, but
also in your country, has been the
root and source of unbridled opinions
while on the other hand, with religion
banished to great extent from the
schools, wicked men audaciously
strive, by the craft OF fallacious wis
dom. to extinguish the light of faitl
in the minds Of the young, and to en-
kindle therein the flames OF irreligion
Wherefore it is necessary that you'll
be nourished more carefully witt
sound doctrine, and that those youn,
men especially, who are being edu
Gated for the church, should be full,
armed to fit them for the task of de
Tending the Catholic faith.
We, therefore, most earnestly wei
come and heartily approve your pre-
ject for the erection of university
moved as you are by desire to pre-
mote the welfare of all and the intel
ests OF your illustrious republic. Bu
in order that this noble institute ma
be happily established and conducte
to ever-increasing prosperity it mus
remain under the authority and pre-
lection of all the bishops of the cour
try in such way that its whole a6
ministration shall be directed by ther
through certain bishops selected 70
that purpose, whose right and duty
shall be to regulate the system c
study, to make rules of discipline, t
select the professors and other official
of the university and to ordain what
ever else pertains to its best govern
ment. And it is fitting that wRateve
shall be established concerning al
these things shall be presented to thi
apostolic see for its approval. But a
to the choice Of the city in which tn
university is to be erected we desir
that council be taken with all tn
bishops of the United States, and tha
the question be decided after tn
opinion of all has been asked.
"Go on, therefore, beloved son, tt
gether with all our other venerabl
brethren, the bishops of the Unite
States, to carry to perfection with on
mind what you have begun, and Il
not any one of you be deferred by an
difficulty or labor, but let all take cou
age from the assured hope that the
will receive an abundant return fl
their cares and solicitudes, havir
laid the foundation of an institute de
tined to provide the Church with wo
thy ministers for the salvation of sou
and the propagation of religion, al
to give the republic her best citizen
LEO XIII, Pope.
-fRaltimora Su